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  Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.

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  Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned.

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  America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests

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  Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.

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  It has the added advantage of being true.

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  Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

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  Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God

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  A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

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  A country whose security depends on producing a genius in each generation sets itself a task no society has ever met.

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  In effect, none of the most important countries which must build a new world order have had any experience with the multi-state system that is emerging. Never before has a new world order had to be assembled from so many different perceptions, or on so global a scale.

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  History is the memory of States.

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  Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.

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  George Bernard Shaw: There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

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  order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.

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  Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

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  Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.

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  In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.

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  Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

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  Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world

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  Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

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  A more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.

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  Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable

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  The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.

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